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“They all seem crazy to me.” He is one of the specialists who support the Government in the tough decisions to be made in these hours to give the pulse to the situation. The contagion curve rises, the new positives exceed an important psychological threshold, 10,000, the dpcm released just on Monday seems prehistoric, and the executive struggles and writhes all day, unable to decide even if only to meet on a day to understand what to do or not. Then, a long night meeting, of 7 hours, at Palazzo Chigi, on maneuvers and anti-Covid measures, from which the intention arises to launch a new Dpcm between Sunday and Monday.
It had been Dario Franceschini since the morning to break the delay and ask Giuseppe Conte for an emergency meeting. A politically strong act, which was aimed at removing the prime minister. For the head of delegation of the Democratic Party, the situation is one step away from spiraling out of control. Without more severe measures, there is a risk of totally losing control of the contagion, the irregular measures implemented by various Regions generate confusion and a normative babel in which it is difficult to get out. Not to mention the communicative aspect, with a madness of messages, between laxity and alarmism, which contribute to chaos. Everything in Nazareno, despite the usual defenses, was furious with Vincenzo De Luca. The ordinance that closed schools throughout Campania was one-sided and not agreed, and stands in stark contrast to the national orientation. At night, however, De Luca makes a partial setback at school, allowing in a new ordinance the presence in class of children from 0 to 6 years old.
The prime minister does not respond to the Democratic Party, at least publicly, and does not change his agenda. Early departure from Brussels, he heads to Calabria for the funeral of Jole Santelli, then to Genoa for the Limes festival, returning to Rome very late at night, he begins a river summit but does not decide. The Democratic Party murmurs and sways: “This indecision is not possible given what is happening.”
Franceschini and Speranza have been pushing hard for a week. Which means reinforcing the capacity of public transport, staggered admissions to the school, rotation of distance education, selective blocking interventions to contain the municipalities and provinces with a high level of positives. But mostly it means curfew. A closure to the nightlife and gatherings that, with the drop in temperatures, take place mainly indoors. The stoppage to private dinners has not passed, also thanks to the discreet intervention of the Quirinale, but a source close to the dossier raises the alarm: “In a few days we run the risk of reaching 20,000 new positives a day, so what do we do? ? “. Luigi Di Maio also seems to embrace the penalty line, asking “to anticipate the options to avoid a new blockade”.
The Scientific Technical Committee is alerted to an ad-hour call: “We are ready to meet over the weekend as soon as we have information about it.” In the halls of the Government, among the most intransigent, we came up with the hypothesis of a weekly curfew at 10 pm and a lockdown (although not as total as last spring) on weekends.
A whirlwind of meetings over the next 72 hours will lead to the decision. Conte goes there with leaden feet. A week ago he stopped more draconian measures, even today he is very cautious with measures that could further tear the economic and social fabric of the country. “But the situation requires more actions,” he agreed with his interlocutors. The schedules are not safe, but Monday could be the day of new rules and a new dpcm.
Times get tight. The Higher Institute of Health has defined as high the for the maintenance of intensive care in ten Regions: these are Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Puglia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Valle d’Aosta. The rebound of responsibilities for hours grows more bitter. Francesco Boccia and Domenico Arcuri explained that there are resources and fans for 1600 additional places in intensive care that have not been served by the governors. At the same hours De Luca announced a total curfew on Halloween weekend, Piedmont the total closure of retail from midnight to 5 from Sunday, Lombardy the stop of amateur sport.
On Saturday the day will begin at 9. A new confrontation will be on stage between Boccia and Arcuri themselves, along with Speranza, the Regions and Civil Protection. The same pattern that marked the gloomy days of the closing of spring. The hope is that history will not repeat itself.
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